Description: Faience mummiform shabti with decayed surface and patchy blue-green glaze with features indicated in black paint - main details of face, headband, implements, basket and vertical column of faded hieroglyphs down front beginning on hands. Has tripartite molded hair, molded ears and facial features, painted features include seshet fillet tied at back of head, carries 2 hoes, seed bag in the middle of back with straps over shoulders. Inscription names owner as Pahemnetjer (Ranke 115.16).
Cultural Significance: Typical Third Intermediate Shabti of faience, during this period it was usual for burials to include a shabti for each day and overseer shabtis (around 400 being included in a burial) to provide a tomb owner with workers in the afterlife to fulfil their obligations to farm in the afterlife fields. Similar shabtis in other collections have a provenance from Abydos 1899-1900 excavations and this shabti likely shares this provenance -- Tomb 32 Cemetery D (D. Randall-MacIver & A.C. Mace, El Amrah and Abydos 1899-1901, Egypt Exploration Fund, London 1902, 99, Pl. LVIII, 57).
Comparanda: National Museums Liverpool 24.9.00.230, 24.9.00.231; Swansea W5026

Inscriptions / Translations:  The Osiris, God's Father of Amun, God's Father of Khonsu, Pahemnetjer, true of voice.

Bibliography:  D. Randall-Maciver & A.C. Mace, El Amrah and Abydos 1899-1901, Egypt Exploration Fund, London 1902, 99, Pl. LVIII, 57.

Notes:  H. D. Schneider, ‘Shabtis. An introduction to the History of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes with a Catalogue of the Collection of Shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden’, 3 vols., Leiden 1977. Schneider classification: VIIIA2/W20/H1/I5/B13b/Tp7b

Note that the provenance might be EEF/ERA excavations between 1880 and first years of 1900, probably Abydos. It is noted by Nicholas Reeves in his essay in the Egyptian Art at Eton College Exhibition Catalogue that David Randall MacIver sent a consignment of material from the Abydos Excavations (p.4).